Word: bays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire When Ready. A few days later, after midnight on May 1, seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano...
Prior to turning novelist, Leonard Cline wrote on art, music and books for newspapers in Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Manhattan. He was born in Bay City, Mich., 34 years...
...Bremen, Germany, one Paul de Bay donned a burly green coat, shiny boots, a broad leather belt, a two-edged sabre. Anyone, thought Paul de Bay surveying himself before a mirror, would mistake him for a policeman. Smiling, he sauntered into the street...
Soon he saw Irene Baierele, carrying a payroll package from bank to office. With protective gallantry he said to her: "Bow your head and follow me in silence." Arriving at police headquarters they went together to a private room. Here, still gallant, Herr de Bay relieved Fraulein Baierele of her package and vanished, while she waited his return. Later he was discovered in a gambling club, disposing of Fraulein Baierele's package in dishonest fashion. Genuine policemen arrested him, took him to court, removed him, silent, his head bowed, to jail; where for five years he must remain...
...year ago Harry Payne Whitney, generous turfman, sold four horses for a song, because Ogden Mills and Ogden Mills' sister (Mrs. Henry C. Phipps) were his good friends, because he wished them luck with their new Wheatley Stables. One of the four yearlings, a slender bay colt with a reckless eye, bore the name of Dice...